Thomas M. Disch (1940–2008)
Autor(a) de Camp Concentration
About the Author
Thomas Disch was a popular & prolific poet, playwright, essayist, & novelist. He is the author of many works of science fiction & the poetry collections "Dark verses & Light" & "Yes, Let's: New & Selected Poems". (Publisher Provided) Thomas M. Disch was born in Des Moines, Iowa on February 2, 1940. mostrar mais He dropped out of the architecture program at Cooper Union, and then left New York University after he sold a short story entitled The Double Timer. His first novel, The Genocides, was published in 1965. His other novels include The House That Fear Built, 334, The M.D., The Priest, The Word of God: Or, Holy Writ Rewritten, and Clara Reeve written under the pseudonym Leonie Hargreave. He won several awards including the 1969 Ditmar Award for Camp Concentration, the O. Henry Award in 1975 for Getting into Death and in 1977 for Xmas, the 1980 John W. Campbell, Jr. Memorial Award for On Wings of Song, and the 1981 British Science Fiction Award for The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances. He was also wrote poetry, opera librettos, plays, and criticism of theater, films and art. His collections of poetry include Here I Am, There You Are, Where Are We; The Dark Old House; Yes, Let's: New and Selected Poetry; and Dark Verses and Light. He won the 1999 biennial Michael Braude Award for Light Poetry for A Child's Garden of Grammar, the Locus and Hugo Awards for 1999 for The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, and the Puschcart Prize for The First Annual Performance Art Festival at Slaughter Rock Battlefield. His criticism appeared in several publications including The Nation, The New York Daily News, and The New York Sun. In 1987, he wrote a script for the television series Miami Vice. He shot himself on July 4, 2008 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1986 or 1988
Séries
Obras por Thomas M. Disch
The Castle of Perseverance: Job Opportunities in Contemporary Poetry (Poets on Poetry) (2002) 10 exemplares
Descending 8 exemplares
Voices of the Kill [short fiction] 7 exemplares
Fun With Your New Head [short story] 7 exemplares
Thomas l'incredulo 5 exemplares
The Roaches 5 exemplares
The Asian Shore {novelette} 4 exemplares
La stanza vuota 4 exemplares
In Xanadu 4 exemplares
Things Lost 3 exemplares
The Squirrel Cage 3 exemplares
Canned Goods (Short story) 3 exemplares
The Number You Have Reached [short fiction] 3 exemplares
The Man Who Had No Idea [short fiction] 3 exemplares
Total Amnesia: The Complete Text and Programming Notes of the World's Most Famous Lost Computer Game (2021) 2 exemplares
The Grown-Up [short fiction] 2 exemplares
The Shadow 2 exemplares
The White Man [short story] 2 exemplares
The Santa Claus Compromise [short fiction] 2 exemplares
Highway Sandwiches 2 exemplares
Jour de Fête [short story] 2 exemplares
Minnesota Gothic [short story] 2 exemplares
Narcissus 2 exemplares
The Birds [short fiction] 2 exemplares
Tomorrow: Science Fiction and the Future 2 exemplares
The Owl and the Pussycat [short story] 2 exemplares
Ciencia ficción : primera seleccion 1 exemplar
Logor koncentracije 1 exemplar
334 - 1974 Nebula Award Nominee 1 exemplar
198…199 1 exemplar
The Flneurs of Mars 1 exemplar
Poems (in Paris Review 158 - PLIMPTON) 1 exemplar
Mort et la jeune fille solitaire 1 exemplar
"A Vacation on Earth" (in SF 12) 1 exemplar
Torturing Mr. Amberwell 1 exemplar
Quincunx [short fiction] 1 exemplar
The Wall of America [short story] 1 exemplar
Come To Venus Melancholy 1 exemplar
Mutability 1 exemplar
Josie and the Elevator 1 exemplar
Terra all'infinito 1 exemplar
In Praise of Older Women {short story} 1 exemplar
Painting Eggplants {short story} 1 exemplar
A Knight at the Opera {short story} 1 exemplar
The First Annual Performance Art Festival at the Slaughter Rock Battlefield {short story} 1 exemplar
The Vengeance of Hera 1 exemplar
Prayer to Pleasure {poem} 1 exemplar
1972 1 exemplar
The Hawk & the Metaphor 1 exemplar
Concepts [novelette] 1 exemplar
Storie del bene e del male 1 exemplar
Et in Arcadia ego 1 exemplar
The Revelation [short story] 1 exemplar
The story of faith [short fiction] 1 exemplar
In Praise of New York {poem} 1 exemplar
Nada 1 exemplar
The Fugitive {poem} 1 exemplar
The Politics of Darkness {poem} 1 exemplar
Ode on the Source of the Clitumnus {poem} 1 exemplar
Robot 32 : Nuove costellazioni 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Contribuidor — 254 exemplares
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection (2003) — Contribuidor — 234 exemplares
The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss (2000) — Contribuidor — 216 exemplares
The Heat Death of the Universe and Other Stories (1988) — Introdução, algumas edições — 94 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30-Year Retrospective (1980) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Eighth Annual Collection (1979) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch--"Angouleme" (1978) 40 exemplares
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Holding your eight hands; an anthology of science fiction verse (1969) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1980, Vol. 59, No. 2 (1980) — Autor — 18 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1983, Vol. 64, No. 5 (1983) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 56. Jeffty ist fünf. (1980) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 15 [Mid-December 1991] (1991) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1989, Vol. 77, No. 4 (1989) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 65. Cyrion in Bronze. (1983) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 10 exemplares
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 16, No. 4 & 5 [April 1992] (1992) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1988, Vol. 75, No. 5 (1988) — Autor — 10 exemplares
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2002, Vol. 102, No. 4 (2002) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
The Little Magazine, v. 11, #1, Spring 1977 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
The Little Magazine, v. 10, #1-2, Spring Summer 1976 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
S-Fマガジン 2009年 05月号 [雑誌] — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
季刊NW-SF 1972年 01月 第5号 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Disch, Thomas M.
- Nome legal
- Disch, Thomas Michael
- Outros nomes
- Demijohn, Thom
Hargrave, Leonie (pseudonym)
Knye, Cassandra (pseudonym together with John Sladek)
Tharp, Beebe (pseudonym)
Disch, Tom - Data de nascimento
- 1940-02-02
- Data de falecimento
- 2008-07-04
- Localização do túmulo
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church Columbarium, Dubuque, Iowa, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Des Moines, Iowa, USA
- Local de falecimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa da morte
- suicide
- Locais de residência
- Roseville, Minnesota, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educação
- Cooper Union
New York University - Ocupações
- theater critic
author
poet
playwright
essayist
novelist - Relações
- Naylor, Charles (partner)
- Organizações
- The Nation
New York Daily News
PEN
National Book Critics Circle
Writers Guild of America East - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1981)
Michael Braude Award for Light Verse (1999)
Hugo Award (nonfiction work, 1999)
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1980)
Pushcart Prize (1998)
Rhysling Award (1981) (mostrar todos 12)
Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story (1970, 1982)
British Science Fiction Association Award (1981)
Locus Award (1981, 1999)
Ditmar Award (1969)
Hayakawa's SF Magazine Reader's Award (1989)
O. Henry Prize (1975, 1979) - Agente
- Karpfinger Agency
Membros
Discussions
Earth invaded, conquered & terraformed em Name that Book (Agosto 2012)
Short sci fi story - endless stairs em Name that Book (Dezembro 2009)
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 154
- Also by
- 148
- Membros
- 7,084
- Popularidade
- #3,467
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 179
- ISBN
- 216
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 26
It is the near-future here (or the near-future from 1968 when Thomas Disch wrote it) and there’s a large-scale war in progress. The story itself is set inside a complex called Camp Archimedes, built deep underground in a disused goldmine and which is simultaneously both prison and research facility. Its inmates (who volunteered for this as a way of escaping life in a conventional prison or US Army brig) are human guinea-pigs deliberately infected with Pallidine, a preparation containing a bacterium derived from the one which causes syphilis. In real life, syphilis has often been linked with genius—as if the spirochaete which causes the one also somehow unleashes the other—and so it is here: “Sometimes I think maybe it wasn’t such a big mistake. I’ll say this for the stuff they gave us—it beats acid. With acid you think you know everything; with this, you goddamn well do.” There’s quite a price to pay though: in the space of just a few short months this Pallidine not only raises your IQ to genius level—it also kills you.
Into this antechamber of Hell comes poet Louis Sacchetti, jailed as a conscientious objector to the ongoing war, then transferred to Archimedes and assigned the task of keeping a journal as an additional, independent and more subjective record of the experiment as it proceeds. By the time he arrives, some of the inmates have been there for months already and, as their minds soar, are very close to death. And they seem to be wasting their genius: the aim of the programme was to devise entirely new kinds of weaponry for the military, yet the prisoners seem to have become obsessed with … alchemy. Yes, this is what Sacchetti stumbles into: Camp A’s collective genius is being frittered away on concocting an Elixir of Everlasting Life, on attempting to cheat death using alchemy.
I love everything about this book. For a start, there’s the richness and imagery of Disch’s prose (his journalist Louis Sacchetti is a published poet). Then there’s the subterranean setting: laboratory-like, hermetic, a former goldmine. In fact there’s a lot of alchemical symbolism, but just as in medieval Europe where alchemy was sometimes a cover, a harmless-looking front for more covert experimentations, so too here. Much of the medieval version, too, was really about the transformation, not of base metals into gold, but of the alchemist.
Camp Archimedes also resembles a stage—claustrophobic, artificial, the prisoners’ every word and deed minutely scrutinised—and the play being acted out on its boards is familiar enough: selling your soul to Satan in exchange for knowledge and all that. But, with the liquid gold of Pallidine coursing through your veins, might you become cunning enough to outwit even the Devil?… (mais)